Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-09
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS.

line company is in Mitchell to locate
headquarters.
The Dawson county commissioners
ordered a vote on local option after COZ
sidering q petition 10 feet long contain
ing 1856 legal voters.
Ed Baker was arrested at Mitchell
Wednesday charged with shooting at
John Anderson, OF Hanson county in o
quarrel over a well digging contract.
Some barley and hay are cut in Hyde
county. The crops are still improving
and it is certain that the yield will be
from fifteen to twenty bushels of wheat
to the acre.
Ii has been estimated by many that
the CT p yield for Sphinx county this
year at the present outlook will not
average mora than fifteen nor less than
ten bushels per acre.
The Hyde county commissioners are
in session and have cpnsiderable to do,
part of the business before it being to
fill a vacancy in the board by the res'g.
nation of VIM. 81. Triplett.
President Silsby of the soldiers and
sailors association u, has just received a
letter saying that Grand Commander
Luicus Fairchild will attend the yeter-
ans reunion at Woonsocket IN August.
Secretary Harrison, OF Huron. gives
1t out that ninety miles OF the Duluth,
Huron and Denver railroad will be com.
pleted by October 10Th. It is being
built southwest from Sank Center, MINI.
Sphinx county sends to the Huron con-
~vention Messrs. Churchill, Gregory,
Poindexter, Barwell, Foster. Wallbridge,
Hazel, Lyers, Gary, Bromley, Towne, s.
w. Bowman, Bushnell, Sterling, Day,
Fenno, Howard, Lutz and Short.
The assessment of Union county has
been raised from a little wei ST., 900, 600
to upwards of $500 600. Treasurer
Ringsurd says about $4,000 i n taxes
will go delinquent. He thinks the ex-
tending of time for pay ment to July Let
is a snare and o delusion.
Dawson county delegates to the
Huron division convention: a. j. Ed.
gerton. T. f. Mentzer, o. o, Stanchtield
IA.E Hitchcock, s. j. Moore. j. N,
Grow, B. s. johnson, r. W. Wheeiock
Il. 0. Preston, ]. s. Foster, g. b. Kelsey,
W. FL. SWEET and E. b. Powell.
Simpson park Interstate camp meet.
ing at Big Stone Lake, /. N. Pardee, in
charge OF the park, was never more at
tractive. Every tent WAS taken before
the meeting began. Large parties are
constantly arriyinR. The meeting bids
fair to be the most successful In the his
tory of the park.
Union county elected to the Huron
division convention JIG Merrill. jerome
Mangan, VIM. Webster. George Buech-
Ter, ]. A Kipiinger, A P. Asbjeld, o. G.
Bland, John Finney, Halyer Knudson,
IL. II. Blair, J. W. MoTaggert, David
Stephens, d. Bsllenger, Geo. K. Free
man and N. A, Kirk-seven democrats
and ten republicans.
Prohibitionits at Neche. in Pembina
county, are indignant because Isaao
Houston, who had q petition containing
600 names to present to the county
commissioners in favor of local option,
handed it to the bartender of the Win
chester hotel OF Pembina, who crossed
the international line. 1t ia said he was
paid several hundred dollars.
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In Rapid City Wednesday morning
fire broke out in the building occupied
by W. FL. Boyd's grocery and Murray
Il Dnndon, butchers, near the depot and
outside the fire limits. The fire depart
ment turned out but could not reach the
building. LOSE: Boyd, $4,000; Murray
& Dandon, $500. Insurance: Boyd ST..
200; Murray s. Dundon. none,
Beadle county elects the following
delegates to the division convention:
Karl Gerner, Il. w. Crowfoot, n. O.
Hickey. Geo. Sterling, o; w. Bsir,
Robert Lowry, H. ]. Rice, g. T. Lane,
I. F. B. Coffin, G. s. sprsgue; J.T.
Davis, @. s. Fassats. Cyrus Potter, J.
NJ. Baker, A. 8. Jones, A. Bartholomew,
SO. Curtis, A. Prolasco, John Cham.
berlain,. Carl D. Foster and Gus Dams.
Col. Dodge received orders Thursday
to concentrate his regiment, the 18th in.
faDtry, at Fort Yates as soon as posi-
BILE and proceed by rail to Duluth and
cross the lakes to Buffalo, New York
The twelfth infantry has not arrived get
Post traders and residents at the pest are
uneasy over the prospects of being left
without military protection, as between
three and four thousand Indians are loaf.